| Show A RELIGIOUS CHEAP JOHN WE HAVE had occasion to notice once conce or twice EL a religious mountebank who is making a begging tour in the interest partly of the ogden methodist university and largely of rev bev sam small its nominal president himself while in new york he was interviewed by a mail and express reporter and according to that paper delivered himself of a stream of falsehood and vituperation which on the saviors rule denote a heart in a most depraved condition ha appears to be desperately savage over the declaration of president woodruff and its acceptance by the church which he calls tricks of word jugglery Jugg lerv and a political dodge ff and says the othe NEWS the official organ of the ing on the proclamation says hays it is simply issued to test the good faith of the americans who have said that a recognition of the laws of congress was all that would be required of the mormon authorities I 1 for this free advertisement even from so disreputable a he thought we should be thankful but we do not appreciate anything of the kind that is based on falsehood this paper has not dot said anything of the sort small is up to his old tricks which are in keeping with his name following are a few choice extracts from smalls utterances through the mail madl aud express a fitting channel for their expression only the devil and the priests truly know the widespread wide spread extent of the polygamous extant in the territory P any one who will read that scandalous and rebellious sheet the NEWS will soon discover that the mormons cormons are more rebellious in spirit than the anarchists of chicago they only lack the courage and numbers to rise in open warfare and make anew a new rebellion but they hate the government with all their strength py tha I 1 look k the presbyterians rians baptists baptiste and all other denominations as interlopers interlope rs and political enemies they accuse us of being the instigators of the perau eions which they love to mouth over and lose no opportunity to denounce us as spies and godless bigots while they thus heap upon us all the vile epithets at their command and threaten with boycott and bludgeon our missionaries they are for ever harping harning upon their awn own saintliness and aid sufferings their inconsistencies are only paralleled by their infamies amies 12 because their system involves the crimes of polygamy basta bastardy rdv indiscriminate harlotry destruction of marital relations of domestic life and their nameless fo forms e of f pollution we submit that these t things cannot be recognized as worship of god and entitled to legal sanction ti qUaid tad constitutional protection 1 1 atter alter this and more of the same sort of slander small goes oai on to tell what progress methodism is making in ogden and here he gets get in his fine work to draw in the dollars the prospective endow endowment menty of the university is the great desideratum side ratum and that is to give the decisive stroke against mormonism then nothing will be needed he says but this we need the enlargement of the authority of the utah commission to 8 sift ift the loyal from the he polygamous and perjured mormon the devolving upon the governor of the territory of the power to appoint the subordinate territorial officials the imposition of the idaho or a similar test oath the perpetual disfranchisement of every mormon who does not under oath recognize the laws of congress and repudiate all allegiance legi ance anoe to the revelation of poly polygamy amy and the popish supremacy of or the priesthood in secular affairs these acts are needed are warranted by our system of government and are demanded banded in justice to the loyal people of utah we have been trying to get these measures enacted for some time but the mormon lobby and their lunch house in washington city with its stores of mah champagne and corruption have thus far thwarted us we do hope at the next bession to got get such a representation sen tation of 0 the truth as aa it is in utah before congress and the country as an will foroe force these necessary eskary safeguards of decent republican into the statutes small pretends to be terribly an gry over mormon influence in political matters but methodist influence in politics is all right of course we need this that and theother the other we have been trying to got get these measures enacted we hope at the next session etc this is very modest from a religious adventurer who is ill unable to establish a legitimate standing either in the methodist or any other denomination and whose residence in ba utah is so recent that he is not yet a legal voter small knows nothing personally perio nally either of the territory or its people of mormonism he is as profoundly ignorant as the ground on which the university that is to find him a living is to be erected he could not to save his soul from the perdition that awaits them who love and make a lie he give an intelligent answer to the question I 1 what is mormonism small exhibits neither the characteristics acte of a christian nor the I 1 instincts of a gentleman he talks like a coarse blackguard totally regardless gard less lessof of tru truth thin in an inordinate craving after money and notoriety we would have treated his m uth ings with the silence of utter contempt but for the fact that they have been copied into other papers from the new york sheet which is a fitting receptacle for such vileness his ravings are not modi modified fled by a syllable of truth and are what might be expected of such an itinerant religious cheap john astae as the rev sam small |
